A bioregion is a place that has its own distinctive natural economy. It has, in
Heidegger's language, its Dasein. Neither ecosystems nor social customs are co-
extensive with national boundaries; acid rain and nuclear fallout do not respect
the ...

The Central Valley bioregion is a wide, flat, low-elevation trough of sediments
bounded by the Coast Ranges to the west and Sierra Nevada to the east. The
northern part is drained by the Sacramento River; and the southern part, by the
San ...

Organized around watersheds, mountain ranges, vegetation types, and other
natural boundaries, the bioregion is a sensible scale for biodiversity
management - certainly more sensible than the conventional site level and also
more "real" than ...

Also known as an ecoregion,1 a bioregion is a place defined by common natural
features, most often land forms and watersheds that determine what native flora
and fauna can live there and that have a profound effect on the local climate.

A bioregion is a small slice of our biosphere that is composed of several smaller
ecosystems—typically falling within the same boundaries as a watershed (
McGinnis, 1998; Thayer, 2003). When we formulate our curriculum and
pedagogy ...

The Social and Cultural Ecology of Sustainable Development by Per Raberg

A bioregion is a region with a fairly well-defined ecosystem: soil, climate, flora,
fauna. It can be a coastal strip, a planeland, a mountain region Gradually almost
the whole of the USA has come to be divided into bio-regions of this kind -
regions ...

bioregion is a fruitful placebased organizing concept stems from the premise
that “a mutually sustainable future for humans, other lifeforms, and earthly
systems can best be achieved by means of a spatial framework in which people
live as ...

Tools and Systems for the Small-Scale, Sustainable Market Grower by Stephen Leslie

A bioregion is an organization of political, cultural, and environmental systems
based on a localization of human economies within naturally defined areas.
Bioregions are defined through the physical parameters of the environment,
starting ...

At the Confluence of Capital, Politics and Nature by Maano Ramutsindela

In contrast to what amounts to the bioregionalists' local scale, ecologists' view of
a bioregion is a regional landscape that mediates between local and global
scales. The ecologists' logic is that the global and local scales are extreme and ...

bioregion A territory defined by natural boundaries (such as *drainage basins or *
ecosystems), rather than by political or administrative units. An area of relatively
homogeneous ecological characteristics, or a specific assemblage of ecological
...

to affirm the moral importance of considering closely the intrinsic moral value of
animal life, plant life, and that of ecological wholes, like a forest ecosystem, a
bioregion, or a sea. Practically, this functions to interject a pause in the ...

–They are physically, or socially or culturally dependent on a specific territory or
bioregion. Because of controversies over defining groups as indigenous, as well
as the politics of domination and identity in many regions of the world, estimates ...

BIOREGIONALISM Bioregion denotes the conflux of cultural and
ecogeographical features in human-defined territories. Bioregionalism has been
promoted by geographers as a pragmatic research framework for understanding,
...

An Encyclopedia of Eco-Friendly Culture in the United States by Kim Kennedy White

Second is the Piedmont bioregion, defined geologically by igneous and
metamorphic rock and cartographically with a diagonal swath bordered on the
east by the Tidewater area and on the west by the rising Blue Ridge Mountains.
The fall ...

biomaterial bioregion quantitative estimate of the entire assemblage of living
organisms, both animal and vegetable, of a given habitat, considered collectively
and measured in terms of mass, volume, or energy in calories. biomaterial
Surgery, ...